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Author : Maurits Cornelis Escher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780936859811
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Marc Bell Presents The Magical World of M.C. Escher written by Maurits Cornelis Escher and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780140289206
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Gödel, Escher, Bach written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by Penguin Group(CA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.
Author : Don Handelman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811653
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Models and Mirrors written by Don Handelman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions first and foremost in terms of their declared and assumed functions. By contrast, this book, which has become a classic, investigates them as epistemological phenomena in their own right. Comparing public events - a domain which includes ritual and related occasions - the author argues that any public event must first be comprehended through the logic of its design. It is the logic of organization of an occasion which establishes in large measure what that occasion is able to do in relation to the world within which it is created and practiced.
Author : Micky Piller
Publisher : Gallery of Scotland Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781906270889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Amazing World of M.C. Escher written by Micky Piller and published by Gallery of Scotland Editions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh, 27th June - 27th September 2015.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Author : Josh Buoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692710517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Agnostic-Ish written by Josh Buoy and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about science, religion, and the world in between. I was born into a Christian family, but fell out of religion and in love with the scientific method. I had little need of faith, I thought, when science could tell me so much more about the world, and ask so little of me in return. But as I aged into young adulthood, a new chapter of my story began. Did I really know why I believed what I believed? How could I be so certain of my convictions when I hadn't even honestly considered the evidence? This book traces my journey through the furthest reaches of thought, a journey that took me through the realms of psychology, biology, physics, and belief. Could I find a place for faith in the modern world? Or was I right to cast it off as I did?
Author : Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320549431
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!
Author : Prasenjit Saha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198816464
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Astronomers' Magic Envelope written by Prasenjit Saha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good `back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argument that starts from general principles and leads to an interesting result. This book guides students on how to understand astrophysics using general principles and concise calculations -- endeavouring to be elegant where possible and using short computer programs where necessary. The material proceeds in approximate historical order. The book begins with the Enlightenment-era insight that the orbits of the planets is easy, but the orbit of the Moon is a real headache, and continues to deterministic chaos. This is followed by a chapter on spacetime and black holes. Four chapters reveal how microphysics, especially quantum mechanics, allow us to understand how stars work. The last two chapters are about cosmology, bringing us to 21st-century developments on the microwave background and gravitational waves.
Author : Maurits Cornelis Escher
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
ISBN 13 : 9783822896341
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (963 download)
Download or read book The Graphic Work written by Maurits Cornelis Escher and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Graphic Work"" presents over 80 of Escher's most interesting pictures selected by the artist himself. It includes Escher's commentaries on his work, which make his startling visual effects more easy to interpret. The book also features Escher's own account of his evolution as an artist. An authentic source book of high significance, it offers the best introduction to the fantastic universe of the grand master of illusion.
Author : Emma Fick
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781935754992
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Snippets of New Orleans written by Emma Fick and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE INTRODUCTION: Snippets are fragments of things. They are people observed, foods consumed, ornaments spotted: a man on a streetcar, crawfish shells on the sidewalk, an ornate cornstalk-shaped fence. I believe that to immerse oneself in a place means to try and hold all its elements, past and present, grandiose and mundane, in a single plane of vision. This is, of course, impossible. The result is fragments, vignettes. In Jackson Square, for example: a vision of the first French settlers coming up the Mississippi alongside the sight of a garishly painted street performer harassing passers-by. If we cannot hold all facets of a place in our mind at once, I think the next best thing is to honor our fragmented understanding, to see in "Snippets." I learned and re-learned a lot of things making this book. I learned that even in my "home" in Louisiana I feel I am an outsider peering into a window. I re-learned how beautiful and bizarre New Orleans is, how every street has a distinct personality. . . . I re-learned that I know very little about anything, and that the more I learn the more I realize how little I know. I learned that asking for entry into people's personal lives is complicated and requires a lot of mental and ethical somersaults. This book is my most earnest and honest reflection of New Orleans: triumphant and tragic, gaudy and gritty, elegant and ugly, rich and poor, a city that embodies all these and other polar opposites with a perverse kind of grace. My account is flawed and incomplete in the way all our experiences are flawed and incomplete: there are always vistas left to see, flavors left to try, stories left to hear; there are assumptions made, words misunderstood, histories distorted. May this book communicate the New Orleans I know, and may you weave your own New Orleans truth between the pages. - Emma Fick
Author : Bill Lee
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 1400054087
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Have Glove, Will Travel written by Bill Lee and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to The Wrong Stuff describes how the talented but iconoclastic baseball pitcher found himself blacklisted from professional baseball and his adventures around the world in his quest to play the sport he loved, competing in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps across the U.S. and Canada, China, Cuba, Russia, and South America. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312203436
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book No Logo written by Naomi Klein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465030785
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book I Am a Strange Loop written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
Author : Nancy Duarte
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118008936
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Resonate written by Nancy Duarte and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.
Author : Frances Carey (Art historian)
Publisher : Nouvelles éditions Scala
ISBN 13 : 9781857599886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Painting Norway written by Frances Carey (Art historian) and published by Nouvelles éditions Scala. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering painter and printmaker, Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) spent his life capturing the landscapes of his home in Western Norway, imbuing his work with mysticism and an enigmatic symbolic content. The first UK exhibition of his work will run at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from February to May 2016. Over 90 oil paintings and prints will explore the breadth and depth of Astrup's unique artistic practice, shining a spotlight on of one of Norway's most renowned artists of the twentieth century. AUTHOR: Frances Carey is an independent curator and consultant who was formerly Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings and Head of National Programmes at the British Museum. She has published on the history of art and culture from the eighteenth century to the present day. Ian A.C. Dejardin is the Sackler Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. He graduated with a Master (Hons) in History of Art from Edinburgh University; appointed Curator at Dulwich in 1997, he became the gallery's Director in 2005 and since then has presided over a varied and international exhibition programme. MaryAnne Stevens is an independent art historian and curator who has previously worked at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, as Director of Academic Affairs, before serving as Acting Secretary for three years. She has been published extensively, and curated or co-curated many major international exhibitions, including Manet: Portraying Life and Jean-Etienne Liotard. SELLING POITS: * An elegant catalogue showcasing the illustrations and prints of Nikolai Astrup * Beautiful illustrations displayed without the distraction of scholarly comment * Astrup is a well-loved Norwegian painter, uniquely able to capture the spirit of his home 175 colour
Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316089087
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Disappearing Spoon written by Sam Kean and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
